Preserving Our Places in History In the Classroom
A FREE Professional Development Webinar Series for South Carolina Educators
The WeGOJA Foundation is hosting a series of FREE professional development webinars and offering arts education resources for South Carolina educators to help enhance their classroom instruction. The resources provide easy-to-follow, curriculum based lesson plans and activities for primarily 3rd and 8th grade art and social studies. The material incorporates African American history and heritage into lesson plans and, through modeling, demonstrates how to address complex historical subjects like slavery and Civil Rights in the classroom.
This opportunity is open only to South Carolina educators. Educators must register to get the webinar link. SC teachers who meet requirements will get 3 CEUs, a $75 stipend and a copy of the Commission's A Teacher’s Guide to African American Historic Places in South Carolina.
New film infuses Art and History into a curriculum-based lesson
The film “South Carolina African American History Through Our Eyes,” is an arts-infused lesson on African American history, told through a student’s discovery. The student, Marcus, an athlete, learns more about the depth and complexity of history as he reconciles his passion for the visual arts with everyday life. With the help of his teacher, Ms. Barnes, he learns, among many examples, that Edwin Augustus Harleston was a famous visual artist from Charleston who was a mentee of W.E.B. Dubois as he attended Clark University in Atlanta, and came back home to serve as the first president of the Charleston NAACP. The 24-minute film covers other undertold legacies and triumphs of the past.
The film is part of a project funded by the South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
“Adam’s Story”: Part of a live art performance infusing Art with Social Studies
Part of WeGOJA Foundation’s “Preserving Our Places in History” in the Classroom series were live performances in Hartsville, SC.
Session #4
If These Bricks Could Talk: Powder Magazines & The Roles of Black Charlestonians In An Occupied City 1780-1782
Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, 10 a.m. to Noon
This webinar infuses visual & performance art into 4th grade RevWar history.
This project is funded by the South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Below are recordings of Sessions 1-3.
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
A virtual 3rd grade Arts-Infused Social Studies lesson using the book by Hopkinson and Ransome.
Held 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021.
Lines in the Sand
A virtual 8th grade Social Studies lesson on racial separation in America, using Leevy’s Columbia, SC, service station, quotes, definitions and discussion.
Held 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021.
Hospital Workers Movement — 1969
A virtual 8th grade Social Studies lesson and tour with an arts infusion featuring Mr. Cecil Williams at his South Carolina Civil Rights Museum in Orangeburg, SC, and Dr Bobby Donaldson, Center for Civil Rights History and Research at UofSC, Columbia.
Held Saturday, April 24, 2021.